Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-10-09

= fol I'VE Fe4fE IL 1f'H makes GOOD
ssesa and gete hard and perfectly
We print His familiar Ietser. helssy-
Ing that our readers win Be- fond a
reading naighbor Esaretts fnstrnc-
tons" a. vel IS anything We can
write. These Httle experiences are
what i wanted. whaS enc person
knows By aetnsl test . dozen oshers
may Be IN doahs abouf, which i dis.
PEELED b. tbs seslimcny horns. The
general belief i that wheat a. ! rule
IN this moist climate win NOT harden
sufficiently % mn vel. We are SOW
ing wheat with elover. bit expect 20
make ensilags 81 IL
The practice Of selecting early ms
tured ears Of corn for sesd Is ! good
one. and win result II earlier ripeninr.
aPREcKkxA on BKKF suaAR.
The following. from The San Fran
cisco Journal Of Commerce Of Sept.
18th, IL interesting reading for shs
people Of Washington Territory east
ns wen a. west Of the mountains:
The President az the cnlifornia suear
Refinery, on his way back from Europe.
has been interviewed By 3 reporter n
New York IN reference % hia heef-suanr
project. He said that the heet-snFar
farmers about Maedeburk, Germany.
are capitalists and bankers, TheV have
raised the value Of their land 70 5000
per acre, and he had knewn lot Of
sugar land IN Germany sold Tor $500
per acre. The owner Of twenty acres
81 land IN sugar baefs there Is rich.
The grower Il also q manufacturer:
the farmerB being banded together,
and ~ owning shares In . manufac-
turing plant.
Now zee no reason why our
American farmers should not be CAPT
ializts and bankers II they viii devote
themselves 70 raising sugar beets and
making raw sugar strictly Ia accord
ance with the plan successfully pur-
sued 50 many years IN Germany.
This applies not only 70 California,
but also 70 many parts Of the United
States.
I am about 70 try the beet SUGAR
experiment on alarge scale. The ma
chInefy Is under contract; q great
quantity Of SEED has been boueht
One season win Be sufficient 10 test the
matter thoroughly. / have sufficient.
confidence in The experiment 70 put
my own money Ia Il, the plant costlne
800 900. and ] don't ask any one else
for money.
In Germany where they have raised
the nacchafine matter from ~ 20 III
per cent. IN the last seventeen years,
they have made ~ high ~ 50 per cent
profit by the use Of 4 certain process
want our farmers 70 do the same Is
the Germans have done, and that
they may live IN as big houses IS the
sngar-raEsers Of Magdeburg do and be
rich
The wheat production OF India Is
increasing, and England must put a
tariff on wheat or her farm
ers will be ruined. What, then, are
our wheat growers 10 do when they are
shut out Of the Liverpool wheat mar
ket7 expect at FIRST 10 start In with
$50 tons Of beess per day, producing
about 20 tons of sugar per day; then
u ia lMAM|1 @fC A&N3A49ANs WA -
crease the plant 70 consume 100 tons OF
beets per day.
aThs hundred dollar land should
produce twenty tons per acre, worth
$50 brought % the factory. Then the
beet pulp VIII feed cattle and keep
good two years, and that we VIII give
90 the farmers when We have got out
the sugar. Than. also, the lime used
-. n-~kfnt~. ~ all
which viii constantly improve.
Germany Is nov exporting annu-
ally 60, 600 tons Of beet sugar and con-
Stunning 400 900 tons"
without q protective tariff on wheat
in England, our farmers are virtually
shut out Of the English market, unless
they are willing virtually 70 work for
nothing, board themselves, and wear
ovsralls on Sunday besides. A more
suicidal policy was never adopted by
any people in any country than that
Of exporting the fat Of this land for a
nominal sum, or no sum ct all, and
neglectlng such favorable conditions as
exist here In our midst for such
grand enterprise a. Is now 70 be inau-
eurated in earnest in California. In
addition to the factory mentioned be-
low. the company at Alvarado are
building q new. Improved and larger
factory near the site Of the old one.
Il Is eight years since our investga-
tons began. resulting in an mistaken
conviction that here in Washington
Territory would eventually be the
home q 9 great beet sugar industry.
A trip 10 and through the sugar pro
duclnR region Of Germany brought an
enthusiastic confidence that, strive as
hard As We might, could never be inn
parted TO others with sufficient capital
10 embark in the enterprise; hence the
abortlvs attempt made two years ago
fell Cat aad did not succeed.
We, too, as farmers. II We cannot
enhance our land 70 Be worth $3.50
per acre" may reasonably expect q
value Of several hundred dollars per
acre for sugar production. II We can
not become Suddenly capitalists and
bankers" We might modeatly aspire
20 better our condition grestlY,
Mr.. Alvord nov has . crop OF sugar
hats growing on his farm, and We
have a the creamery, that win yield
nearly 4 DOT quite three tons Of as
pure white Eranalaasa sugar As ever
housewife placed nPen the table, aud
certainly At = less cost than the same
can be prOdneed for in California
Nov long shall We still shut cur
ewes 70 che inevitable Lst farmers
read and Ponder,
RoCsM os wEKne.
AZ regards weeds N the garden. nF.
Hoskinsa reputed remark that " ne
strike in tine saves ninety -illile
snnld have been nearer correct had